#𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘. | the one-one hundredth.

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tag dump.

𝐕𝐈𝐒. | mage frieren. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄. | hero himmel. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆. | warrior eisen. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 | priest heiter. 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐄𝐒. | a mere ten year journey. 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄. | fern. 𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐑. | stark. 𝐈'𝐌 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓 | sein. 𝐎𝐎𝐂. | all the time in the world. 𝐇𝐘𝐌𝐍𝐀𝐋. | whispering our lullaby. 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒. | 'do you like magic?' 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄: 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍. | before it all fades away. 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐄. | 'she always liked winding people up.' 𝐏𝐒𝐀. | now is all there is. 𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐍. | in my heart; fern is still a child. 𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓. | 'we are a party after all.' 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐁𝐄. | denken. 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃. | macht. 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄. | 'i've gotten on her bad side. she's basically a child.'

𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘. | the one-one hundredth. 𝐈𝐂. | beyond journey's end. 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒. | twelve more hours . . .

𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒. | 'what goes through her mind is most curious.' 𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑. | 'he just outsmarted me; that's all.'

𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐄𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐍. | 'conscientious despite the way you look.' 𝐀𝐄𝐒. | 'i never would have been able to see this on my own.' 𝐃𝐘𝐍 / 𝐇𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐋. |  your words; wishes and courage are alive within me. 

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thinking about how the demon king specifically targeted the elves first for their magic, how elves were the first to possess the means to oppose his armies through their craft of magic and how it originally was only an 'elven' thing, and how the elves were the first to point blankly, be wiped out save for very scarce amounts. there are no longer any elf villages in fri.eren's universe, at least, not so far in the 120+ chapters in the manga we've only seen fri.eren, kraft, and se.rie. i think that makes a lot of sense, actually .

friere.n's drive to kill demons marking her as the most effective at killing demons in history, 'the slayer' and in a sense, of monsters in general, albeit she isn't a melee range fighter like say, hi.mmel or stark or eisen , it would be extremely unlikely and borderline improbable for her to meet her fallen race. if anything, it's sad because fri.eren says without much emotion how they are 'dying' and 'going extinct' and she doesn't even really know where any are.

so we have an essentially immortal being not only dealing with the 'extinction' of her loved ones through mortal death , but also the extinction of her people, something she knows all too well in her early centuries when the demon king targeted her village, her enclave of elven community, and wiped them out save herself, who killed the general sent to slaughter them. so for fri.eren's party that travels, people blatantly gaping at her like that merchant she helped? makes total sense. it would take a miracle and a blue moon to see an elf, and it's probably a miracle in itself that even three exist.

the tragedy is in that, the flow of time and the acceptance that magic is no longer limited to the elves but all humans, is something fri.eren, like flamme, fully embraces, but i can't imagine she doesn't feel some hidden, unreadable sorrow about it. after all, she laments to her master that she wasn't strong enough to protect her people from dying. so if you see fri.eren in threads, not just because she's the legendary mage who killed the demon king . . . it's also because she's a literal elf, and you just don't see that anymore. she and serie, kraft....they're a dying breed of an age passing into something new: humanity.

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* psa / height of magic.

i'm probably going to update my rules in terms of how combat if any, granted how lazy and uninterested fri.eren is in battle, are conducted and what i myself, as a mun will allow granted i write a very, very overpowered muse. this doesn't equate to 'unkillable / undefeatable ' but i frankly see interactions with people who pursue her line of the ' height / apex of magic ' as fern calls fri.eren's prowess just doing a dungeon, who still to this current updates in the manga , has not revealed her full hand which.. is absolutely terrifying, more of a teacher.

in most cases granted fri.eren's absurdly huge mana pool, which is quoted to be almost the same amount as serie's, who fri.eren isn't even half her age, or less!, her 1000+ years of knowledge and experience, i think it's important how well the fight between fern against her clone and ultimately frier.en facing her own replica demonstrates that experience > most anything else. you can be a prodigy like fern and there will still be a gap. you can have incredible imagination like ubel , but with sheer numbers, still be overwhelmed like the replicas overpowering her and denken in 'attrition'.

it isn't just ' fri.eren' is the main character . this is a character that 9/10 i think of my interactions has likely lived longer than most muses she'll meet, if not, cool! but those 1000+ years of experience, magic, instinct, mana pool, and battle strategy, the woman has killed the most demons in history including the demon king, kind of cement that despite the 'cute elf falls into a mimic for fun' is really the last person you'd want to test. thankfully, i think it's more in character for fri.eren unless it's a crisis, to be a teacher, something she excels at with fern, who only would have gotten that far with her own prowess and efforts as her own brand of prodigous young mage, and also having spent time actually /studying/ fri.eren over time journeying with her and knowing her personally. it's not something you'd come with naturally, and even THEN the 1000+ years vs her what, 16? time makes a huge difference. but she still is someone fri.eren is highly looking forward to watching succeed, and it shows how incredible a teacher she is even for brief periods of time, like with lawine and kanne.

this doesn't mean fri.eren is invulnerable. but granted as a manga-reader too , we still haven't seen her go all out, which, i'm not sure if we will or not ? granted her lazy nature and dislike of fighting 'strong opponents' even if frankly, she is the strong opponent, frightfully so, i'll be picky with any fight / combative threads against her, as again, i write an immensely overpowered character and i'm not going to bend canon or my muse to have her magically 'lose' for no reason even if MY muse could genuinely care less about battles, and madhouse really hammers that home when i think we as an audience almost are lulled into this sense of security with fri.eren as a character with her laziness, her sloth like nature, her bouts of silliness with mimics and her tenderness with fern, awkward as it may be, until it really slaps you in the face be it the anime or the manga. this is someone you would not want to fight by choice.

i just love the heavy emphasis of years / mana pool vs variety of magic, and how years of experience, impossible levels of years that go on and on for, well, ever, basically, are still 9/10 going to crush the opposition. but still the era of humans is coming and fri.eren looks forward to it immensely. as the humans learn, one of the last living elves, will learn too, for fun though like let her nap okay?

i'm just really happy with this episode. if your muse ever wants a part-time teacher though, frie.ren will be happy to oblige. her main focus is her apprentice and familial figure, fern, who will certainly rise to great heights in the era of humans, but if you ever need someone who likely will catch onto your methods / be an impartial teacher who actually ironically is amazing at teaching . . . fri.eren is your woman.

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icons v unlikely to be used unless you're someone she loves and you're dying - also i'll be tagging anime / manga spoilers for fri-fri under fri.eren spoilers tw without the period ! i'm almost to chapter 118 so ! also fun fact fri.eren's last interaction with heiter in the manga she actually has a whole panel where her face is like this and it's uh really happy -

something about it is so gut wrenching because she doesn't cry. because her name literally! means 'freezing' and she's been seen even by all her friends who loved / love her as 'coldhearted' and she's so unaware that she has a great capacity for love and care and kindness! as much as callousness and apathy and disinterest! they don't go without each other and all people have multifaceted aspects! , she's a person! the way she had an inkling about heiter's lie about ewig the sage and the 'immortality spell / resurrection spell ' for fern to have more time with him and he with her . . . ' fern is ready to say goodbye to you ' her telling him not to regret things like she does because oh god she has so much regret. and it never stops.

basically telling her beloved friend and favorite corrupt priest not to regret anything like she does.

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study / one's time.

if frieren ends up actually enjoying you , remembering your 'time' as hers is nearly if not pseudo-immortality, essentially an immortal in a way , she will keep track of your far far more mortal time and celebrate it with awkward, fumbling gifts from her 'time' mixing with 'your time' and always celebrating it with a hamburger steak from eisen's recipe . because 'everyone who works hard is a warrior' and it's her awkward way , when isn't she really , of saying she appreciates you.

she appreciates your time, and the ability to live in it while still being completely isolated from ninety percent of people she'll ever meet. so your life and 'time' as it intermingles with hers before it 'ends' or you're someone else entirely like her, be it full immortal, or basically immortal though can still die (aka frieren ) she's aware of it now .

so she notices, she just won't tell you. she's weird. she's awkward. she's calloused and apathetic and caring and attentive. she's blunt and cold and warm sometimes . she's a complete contradiction of one thing against another but she's somehow all of these things and she's so fascinating . but yes hamburger steak if you get friendship points , but fern threw away the clothes dissolving potion, she's sorry ..